No blessed beings here. George shares the history and some Russian stories of Baba Yaga, often displayed as a child-eating witch who lives in a cabin on chicken legs. Just in time for Halloween, find out where she comes from and why, at first glance, all is not as it seems.

Thank you to our sources, Helen Pilinovksy and Joshua J. Mark:

https://endicottstudio.typepad.com/articleslist/baba-yagas-domain-by-helen-pilinovsky.html

https://www.worldhistory.org/Baba_Yaga/

Image used: Ivan Bilibin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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